Thought I Heard Your Voice
© 2005
Media: oil on paper on two canvases
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $4,200 framed
27" x 34" (69 cm x 86 cm)
Embedded in the paint are faint traces of this text:
In the seagulls’ scrawing
and the slap-slap-slap
of the loose halyard
against the flagpole
this afternoon I thought
I heard your voice again.
And I watched to see if
you might stop by
just to say hello.
All the kids were
scratching out
some sort of game
in the sand below and
the boats were coming back
in the harbor and the screen doors
were wheezing up and down
the beach just as it had
always been but
without you.
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For those of you with low vision:
This painting is composed of two conjoined panels, side by side, with complimentary compositions. The left image depicts the interior view of a house, with a desk sitting in front of two large windows which look out onto the setting sun and the ocean on the horizon. A lamp with a tilted lampshade sits in the center of the composition. The right panel depicts the side of a white house with a window reflecting violet hues of the setting sun. The cropped view of the American flag is seen waving in right side of the composition. In each panel, he surface of the painting appears to have been cut and rearranged slightly askew. Embedded in the paint are the faint traces of a poetic text.
